The Guardian cutting jobs has let me weed out followers who suddenly felt emboldened to engage in transphobia having been quiet before. Hopefully the union can protect the jobs of those most at risk: younger colleagues on lower wages, especially if they aren’t white.
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The response to this news and that of the BBC, as
@tomdaviesE17 points out, is to root for the workers and union against management, not chiding the public for not throwing spare cash at them when everyone’s feeling the pinch.2 replies 26 retweets 169 likesShow this thread -
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Same also goes for the idiotic response of "Ha ha some columnist I don't like will lose their job" that a small pocket of TwitterLeft went for yesterday [spoiler: they probably won't lose it]
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Yeah, unfollowed someone who said they really hoped OJ lost his job because actually, the low paid precariously employed reporters will. There was also a weird “the Guardian wouldn’t be losing money if it was more transphobic” line shared by some, including one Guardian columnist
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